evanescent
evanescent 英 [ˌi:vəˈnesnt] 美 [ˌɛvəˈnɛsənt]
adj. 容易消散的；逐渐消失的；会凋零的
- A beautiful sunset, a rainbow, a wonderful dream right before your alarm clock goes off — all of these could be described as evanescent, which means “fleeting” or “temporary.”
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- adj. 容易消散的；逐渐消失的；会凋零的
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1. But the ironic wink comes to a halt with the whiskey, which is serious: vibrant with the evanescent slap of corn.
但这讽刺性的情况随着这么一种烈性威士忌：在拍碎玉米的瞬间即充满活力，而停止了。
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2. But he now needs to make some brave decisions if South Africa is to help the “lion” economies roar, and the World Cup is not to be an evanescent dream.
但如果南非想帮助“狮子”经济腾飞，不让世界杯成为渐行渐远的梦想，祖马如今需要作出一些大胆的决策。
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3. They are younger than I am and know almost nothing about what is bearable and what isn’t, about the evanescent line between simple mortification and an unendurable, impossible joke.
他们比我还年轻，对于什么事情该忍耐什么事情不该忍耐，对于单纯的禁欲与无法忍受、令人讨厌的玩笑，他们一无所知。
- evanescent (adj.) 1717, "on the point of becoming imperceptible," from French évanescent, from Latin evanescentem (nominative evanescens), present participle of evanescere "disappear, vanish, pass away," figuratively "be forgotten, be wasted," from assimilated form of ex "out" (see ex-) + vanescere "vanish," inchoative verb from vanus "empty, void" (from PIE *wano-, suffixed form of root *eue- "to leave, abandon, give out"). Sense of "quickly vanishing, having no permanence" is by 1738.
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